The correct answer is were.
Since English grammar has this thing called the sequence of tenses, which means that if the first verb in the sentence is in the past tense, all following verbs will have to be in the past tense as well.
So here, the first verb is <em>knew, </em>which is the past simple tense of the verb <em>to know, </em>which means that the following verb <em>to be </em>also has to be given in the past. The past simple form of the verb <em>to be </em>for plural is WERE.
Answer:
Despite his gender bias typical of his age, we could just as easily read "every [woman] believes that [she] has a greater possibility."
Emerson maintains that there is something, or at least that we believe there is something, that belongs only to us. As he states: "[T]here is always a residuum unknown, unanalyzable . . . every man believes he has a greater possibility."
Explanation:
When we alter author's words, or add words which are not in the original text, we must put a pair of square brackets - [ ] around the change in our quotation. In this case, the brackets are put both in the first and second quotation, where the text is altered. The first and second option, therefore, correctly cite the source text.
The third example does not correctly cite the source text, as there is a misquotation - in the original text, the "last closet" is mentioned, while in a quotation, it is changed into "the last chamber", without putting the square brackets.
The suffix "-oid" means "resembling.
